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That's because the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was fundamentally one of the most brutal forms of slavery in the history of humanity. The French colonists in Haiti killed about 40k slaves every year, which was 10% of the slave population there. That's fucking crazy. The French also invented the first gas chamber during the Haitian slave rebellion to mass kill captured rebels by putting them in the hull of ships and burning sulfur to suffocate them. There is nothing really comparable to the systematized atrocities of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and more to the point, NONE of those other histories of slavery actually have present day effects. Meanwhile, in the US, private slavery was outlawed and replaced with prison slavery IMMEDIATELY, with many of the former slaves imprisoned for violating laws specifically written to imprison them, and then leased right back to the plantations they were formerly slaves at. We're STILL dealing with that carceral system today, no matter how much reform there is, and it produces over $11B in profits from prison slave labor annually.
Holy fucking shit. Imagine comparing Cuba and Nazi Germany. Are you serious right now?